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Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) is an international association of recognized experts working together to address international migration from a truly global, multidisciplinary and rights-based perspective. Our concept note provides a detailed profile of GMPA; see a short summary "About GMPA" (2-page brief).
This website features documentation produced by GMPA and member Associates to support and improve migration governance, policy, and practice. More than 200 research papers, policy briefs and other documents on main migration topics are posted. More are constantly added. Materials on this site have informed and shaped laws, policies and practices of governments, international organizations, social partners, NGOs and other stakeholders in all world regions. Please contact GMPA if we can be of service!
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NEWS
- New! Several of GMPA Associates will be presenting at the ISMUN Summer School on Human Rights and Development “Towards the Summit for the Future and Beyond” which will be held in Geneva from 15 to 19 July, 2024. Application for participation is still open.
- New! Listen to Jane Aeberhard-Hodges, GMPA Associate and former ILO Gender Equality Director explaining what GMPA is doing as a partner of the Global Coalition for Social Justice (one of a series of partner activity profiles). The Coalition is convened by the ILO, bringing together more than 300 partners from governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, international institutions, enterprises, civil society organizations, and academic institutions.
- New! GMPA co-organised with Jusoor International for Media and Development 'Unveiling refugee stories, media & advocacy tactics', 28 June, 18h-20h, at University of Geneva-Uni Mail.
- News! May/June 2024. IPU-Inter-Parliamentary Union just launched a set of podcasts on parliaments and health issues. Podcast 3 on the role of parliaments in addressing health of migrants features Patrick Taran, President Global Migration Policy Associates and Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo, Delegate for Migration, Swiss Socialist Party interviewed by Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, Parliament of Ireland and Chair of the IPU Advisory Group on Health.
- GMPA Associates Jane Aeberhard-Hodges (former ILO Gender Equality Director) and Olga Kadysheva (GMPA Secretary) attended Inaugural Forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice. GMPA is a partner of the Coalition. The Forum was held on 13 June 2024, during the 112th Session of the International Labour Conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The programme of the Inaugural Forum highlighted specific actions taken by partners to promote Social Justice. Watch the recordings on the Forum. The Coalition is led by the ILO and unites nearly 300 partners from governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, international institutions, enterprises, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions.
- New! "About GMPA" (2-page brief), updated June 2024.
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Current Activity: What we’re working on now (mid-2024):
- Co-preparing and co-editing a forthcoming special issue Social Justice in the Contemporary World of the academic-scientific journal RTE-Revista Tecnologica ESPOL, published under auspices of the Polytechnic University of Ecuador. (The full Call for Papers is posted online; See in English; en Español.)
- Participating in consultations and activities of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, which GMPA joined as partner.
- Conducting a comprehensive Global literature review on Social Justice, over 700 titles listed, 220 pages at mid-year.
- Doing new research to rewrite and update the forthcoming Handbook on Welcoming Cities for migrants and refugees
- Monitoring sessions of and interceding at side-events to the UN Human Rights Council
- Providing inputs for CERD and C(R)MW UN Treaty Bodies and for Special Procedures reports.
- In April, GMPA has joined the Global Coalition for Social Justice! The Coalition, led by the ILO, unites partners from governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, international institutions, enterprises, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions in a transformative initiative. The mission of the Coalition is to foster multilateral cooperation and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), championing social justice on a global scale. The Coalition leverages a century of ILO experience to generate political commitments, investments, and concrete actions. Together, Coalition partners amplify the scale and impact of initiatives, reinforcing processes dedicated to advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (As of 9 April, the Coalition unites 213 Partners)
- Patrick Taran, GMPA President, spoke at the side-event [to the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council] on: Combating Global Racism: Implementing the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, on 25 March. See speaking text. GMPA was among the co-organisers of the event.
- A GMPA team participated in the Symposium on AI and Citizenship; 25 Years of ICV on 22 March in Geneva. The program featured a Thematic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Democracy and Citizenship and a Round table: Reflection on AI, Ethics and Human Rights. Patrick Taran, GMPA President, moderated the latter (see photos here and here).
- 12 March: Hiya Sharma, MIR candidate at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, joined the GMPA secretariat team as Research Associate intern.
- 15 February: two new Research Associate interns joined the GMPA (volunteer) secretariat team: Ms. Gül Eda Düzgün, PhD candidate in Political Science at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye and Ms Emma Rimonteil, MIR candidate at the University Lumiere Lyon2, France and the University of Melbourne, Australia (exchange program). They join Elisa Allegra Ferrante of Italy who just completed BA studies at the University of Geneva.
2023:
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We are pleased to share with you the GMPA Quadrennial Report 2019-22 presented to the UN ECOSOC -Economic and Social Council, as required by NGO consultative status regulations, submitted 31 December 2023.
Historic 18th Century Villa Masaryk in which the GMPA office is located, adjacent to the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva. Photo by O.Kadysheva/GMPA, December 2023
- 15 December: Jane Aeberhard-Hodges, GMPA Associate, former ILO Gender Equality Director, spoke on Human rights in the context of the 75th anniversaries of the UDHR and the Freedom of Association as a fundamental human right at CoNGO 75th Anniversary Commemoration in Geneva and the CoNGO Sixth Global Thematic Webinar: CoNGO and UDHR: Celebrating 75 Years. (Geneva, Ecumenical Centre and Online on Zoom). See Speaking text and Concept note.
- We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a Special Issue: Social Justice in the Contemporary World of the academic-scientific Journal RTE -Revista Tecnológica ESPOL published by the Escuela Supérior Politécnica del Litoral (Polytechnical University) of Ecuador, co-produced with GMPA. Papers are invited in English and/or Spanish. The full Call for Papers is posted online; See in English; en Español. The Special Issue explores knowledge and understanding of social justice as a major term of reference and concept of our time, encompassing a range of issues, contentions and concerns for societies and governance worldwide. The Scientific Journal Issue is premised on recognizing social justice as both a theoretical concept and a practical ideal—an object of social-scientific and philosophical understanding and debate as well as a real-world goal of social and political mobilization. The submission date is flexible for authors who wish more time. Please contact us soonest to discuss submitting an article! Please share this announcement across your networks; we welcome your suggestions of persons engaged on social justice to also invite to submit a paper.
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- 1 December: on World AIDS Day, we remind of the first, best and only comprehensive global resource on migration, health and HIV & AIDS: the ILO book 'made in GMPA': "Promoting a Rights-based Approach to Migration, Health, and HIV and AIDS: A Framework for Action", containing:
- a comprehensive public health and migration policy and practice framework for addressing HIV and AIDS risks faced by migrants,
- the 'integrated policy agenda'' for action and cooperation enabling all migrants' rights to health and healthy communities everywhere, especially relevant in the ongoing COVID pandemic;
- 'good practices' by communities, governments, NGOs and other actors worldwide on migration, health and HIV&AIDS.
- New status of migrants rights/migration governance conventions: ILO Convention 97: 54 ratifications; ILO Convention 143: 30 ratifications; ICRMW: States Parties: 59 plus 11 signatories pending ratification. 96 States have now ratified or acceded to one or more of these three complementary instruments, in effect half the UN membership. Adding unratified signatories to the ICRMW that have not ratified either of the ILO conventions on migration for employment: 101 States worldwide have formally committed to abide by core international legal standards for protection of rights of migrant workers (in effect virtually all migrants) and for governance of migration. See chart on Ratifications of conventions on migration goverance / migrants rights (ILO C-97 & C-143, ICRMW)
- The GMPA Assembly of Members 2023 was held in Geneva on 13 June, providing a forum for assessment of key challenges in the world of migration; new members were inducted, prior year activity and financial reports approved, and priorities identified for forthcoming work. See Summary of GMPA Assembly Proceedings.
- Annual GMPA Activity Summary Reports are posted on About GMPA page : 2022 GMPA Activity Summary Report